The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-12-21
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A SINGLE ISSUE.
Congress Must Meet the Demand gc- Tarif
Reform-Dilemna Of Repnblicaus--Pres-
ident Cleyeland's Message Makes Action
Imperative.
Qette. to the New York Ee1aid>
WASHINGTON, December 1l.-The-e IS
a growing belief among leading Demo
crats.that Mr.. Carlisle would DO well for
the party s harmonious action on the re-
ducion OF the surplus if he should make
Mr. Randall chairman Of the Ways and
Means Committee. The suggestion has
been made to Mr. Carlisle by proni-
nent Western Democrat, whose belief is
that this selection would have the hap
piest effect in leading the two wings OF
the party to s'dop together. The sug-
gestlon does not please the Republicans
at all. They have lively nope the. the
Democrats viii disagree in this Congress,
as they did, through the folly OF Mr..
Morrison, In the last.
Those Democrats who think it would
be good policy for Mr.. Carlisle to ask
Mr.. Randall to be chairman Of the Was
and Means, do not, however, much ez-
pect this to be done, because they &C.
knowledge that it would be too unbear-
able to Colonel Watterson, who is lust
now engaged in shooting the deserters, "
and who, it is feared, would shoot the
whole Democratic party if so sensible 8
thing should be done as to put Mr..
Randall at the head of the Ways and
Means.
THE PROBLEM OE TIE SURPLUS.
All prophecies as to what kind Of bill
to abolish the surplus revenues viii IN
the end pass Congress and so to the
President are mere folly. The Demo
Gratis have but narrow majority in the
House and are in g mino.i$y IN tae Senate.
When the Ways ard Mons Committee
brings into the House s. blI TO reduce
taxes, that viii be debated very fully,
and is then likely to be largely changed
before it passes the House. L viii then
go into the hands Of the Finance com
Histee in the Senate, of "hich the ma
iority are Messrs. Morr:ll, Sherman,
Jones, of Nevada, Allison, Aldrich and
Hiseock, all strong proteotionists. Toey
will change the bill to suit their views,
and bring it into the Republican Senate
thus amended, where agar it Will be
fully debated, and when u passes there
it Will return to the House to be again
considered.
Leading men of both sides believe that
the tobacco tax will be repealed; in fact,
that is generally taken for granted. The
Democratic plan is, thereupon, to add
largely to the free list, by way Of reduc-
ing taxation and striking of surplus
revenue, because to merely lower duties
on imported articles would probably in
crease and not decrease the revenue.
REPUBLICANS N DILEMMA.
The Republicans, until within a. few
days, were determined on one Of the two
courses, either to strike off the tobacco
tax and the sugar duty, which would re-
:dEce the surplus by about eighty NIL
hons, or to repeal the whole internal
revenue taxes. Since they have realized
the dilemma IN which the Presidents
message puts them, some OF them are
halipg to consider the situation. They
are so fully committed 20 revision OF
the tariff by their speeches and plat
forms that, with the message staring
them IN the face, they begin to think 1t
may be dangerous for them to absolate-
II refuse and resist all tariff amend
ments.
The message has IN fact put the Re-
pabicans in q bad hole. The problem
the President presented N it he pre-
sented to both parties, because the Re-
pnblicans rule in one House, the Demo-
Gratis in the other, and, to get the sur
plus reduced, both parties must ac5.
The strong presentstion Of the matter
by the President has awakened the
country to the fact that the surplus
revenues must be largely reduced to
prevent general Industrial and financial
ruin. How this shall be done, Mr..
Cleveland says in his message, depends
entirely on Congress that is to say, on
the Democrats in the House and on the
Republicans in the Senate; and while he
has given them his recommendations in
the matter, as is his constitutional duty,
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